On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Peter Stuge wrote: >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:30:41AM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> Now if someone can come up with a database that can store random data >> of sizes varying from 512 bytes to several megabytes, at 10-15 >> arrivals a second, I'd be willing to change my opinion. ;) >It would definately require creative "routing" based at least on >size, using different types of stores for different size mails. >But with the numbers you quote there's simply no easy solution. >Sure, you can throw hardware at it and try to parallellize, but that >only works a certain distance too.
Sure, but at least it's a linear scale, and byte-by-byte, the performance of direct disk access is a magnitude better without the database :-). Huge loaded systems are great fun, hehe. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
